"He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's something even sub-human-something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-like about him.....Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalksi - survivor of the stone age!...And you - you here - waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet!"
-Scene 5 Blanche
"When we first met, me and you, you thought I was common. How right you was, baby. I was common as dirt. You showed me the snapshot of the place with the columns. I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them colored lights going! And wasn't we happy together, wasn't it all okay till she showed here?"
-Scene 8 Stanley
(TOP) Mark Rothko
Red on Maroon, 1959
Tate Modern, London
(BOTTOM) Mark Rothko Untitled, 1949
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.
"A Street Car Named Desire"
By Tennessee Williams
"He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's something even sub-human-something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-like about him.....Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalksi - survivor of the stone age!...And you - you here - waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet!"
-Scene 5 Blanche
"When we first met, me and you, you thought I was common. How right you was, baby. I was common as dirt. You showed me the snapshot of the place with the columns. I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them colored lights going! And wasn't we happy together, wasn't it all okay till she showed here?"
-Scene 8 Stanley
(TOP)
Mark Rothko
Red on Maroon, 1959
Tate Modern, London
(BOTTOM)
Mark Rothko
Untitled, 1949
Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.
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